- Rarest sea turtle
- Critically endangered
- Smallest marine turtle
- Estimated that the female nesting population is only at about 1,000
- A video was taken in 1947 of 40,000 turtles nesting in Mexico in just one day
- Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtles are one of two species that nest in arribadas
- Reach about 50 years old
- Hatchlings use a caruncle, a temporary tooth, to break out of their shell
